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POLITICO 44

"What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing." -Rep Michele Bachmann, speaking out against the dangers of health care reform.

"Get your ratings if you want, you're just screwing your political party."MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, addressing conservative radio talk show hosts.

"She would blatantly say, ‘I want to just take this money and quit being governor.’ She started to say it frequently, but she didn’t know how to do it. When she came home from work, it seemed like she was more and more stressed out.” -Levi Johnston, dishing on former Alaska governor Sarah Palin in Vanity Fair.

"I don't know what's on the menu, but I'm sure it will be good." -President Barack Obama, before the White House's Iftar Dinner.

"The answer to that is, they're a—holes." -Van Jones, Obama's green jobs adviser, referring to Republicans in a video that surfaced this week of a Berkeley, California event in February.

"That is a pretty big deal from a commitment standpoint." -Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, when asked if he'd consider running for

the Senate seat of the late Ted Kennedy.

"Oligarhy." - How FOX News' Glenn Beck spelled "oligarchy" on a chalkboard while trying to make a point about the Obama administration.

"Mo money!" - RNC Chairman Michael Steele, in response to a Howard University student's statement that she was pursuing a degree in business law.

"Who let the Blue Dogs out?" -A chyron on "Hardball".

"That is the voice of God because its the voice of truth and experience." - MSNBC's Chris Matthews, reacting to a Bill Clinton

Readers' Comments (32)

"it was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There's a lot of -- I don't know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing." --confusing German for "Austrian," a language which does not exist, Strasbourg, France, April 6, 2009

"No, no. I have been practicing...I bowled a 129. It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something." --making an off-hand joke during an appearance on "The Tonight Show", March 19, 2009 (Obama later called the head of the Special Olympics to apologize)..

"No, no. I have been practicing...I bowled a 129. It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something." --making an off-hand joke during an appearance on "The Tonight Show", March 19, 2009 (Obama later called the head of the Special Olympics to apologize)..

"I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any seances." --after saying he had spoken with all the living presidents as he prepared to take office, Washington, D.C., Nov. 7, 2008 (Obama later called Nancy Reagan to apologize)

"What I was suggesting -- you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith..." --in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, who jumped in to correct Obama by saying "your Christian faith," which Obama quickly clarified (Watch the video clip)....

"Let me introduce to you the next President -- the next Vice President of the United States of America, Joe Biden." --slipping up while introducing Joe Biden at their first joint campaign rally, Springfield, Illinois, Aug. 23, 2008

"Just this past week, we passed out of the out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee -- which is my committee -- a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon." --referring to a committee he is not on, Sderot, Israel, July 23, 2008

"Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain...administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change." --Amman, Jordan, July 22, 2008

"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." --explaining his troubles winning over some working-class voters

"The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, you know, there's a reaction that's been bred in our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society."

"The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, you know, there's a reaction that's been bred in our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society."